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Table 3 The inter rater agreement between the two raters regarding the post therapy parameters of auditory perceptual assessment of speech (n = 32)

From: Efficacy of an Arabic articulatory errors remediation software program in patients with velopharyngeal valve dysfunction: a quasi-experimental study

 

Rater 1 vs rater 2

k (p)

LOA

Degree of nasality

0.683*(< 0.001*)

Good agreement

Glottal

0.692*(< 0.001*)

Good agreement

Pharyngealization

0.472*(< 0.001*)

Moderate agreement

Consonant imprecision

0.522*(0.001*)

Moderate agreement

Overall intelligibility

0.531*(< 0.001*)

Moderate agreement

 

Value of K

Strength of agreement

 

< 0.20

Poor agreement

 

0.21–0.40

Fair agreement

 

0.41–0.60

Moderate agreement

 

0.61–0.80

Good agreement

 

0.81–1.00

Very good agreement

  1. k KAPPA test, LOA level of agreement, p p value for comparing between rater 1 and 2
  2. *Statistically significant at p ≤ 0.05